Pittsburgh: Then and Now.
Pittsburgh, PA
by Smith, Arthur.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Quarto, (hardcover), black cloth, gilt letters, glossy pages, ix, 325 pp. Illus. Bookplate, dust jacket attached to volume; otherwise, Fine, in a Fine, illustrated dust jacket ‘In a continuum of past and present, Pittsburgh Then and Now portrays the city through 161 pairs of matching photographs. Each archival image, culled from old books, municipal records, and library collections, was rephotographed ...from the same camera position, forming an evocation of the past and a record of urban continuity and change...revealing Pittsburgh as it has evolved from architectural styles that refleceted turn-of-the-century eclecticism to the more recent styles labeled ‘modernist’ and ‘postmodernist,’ from horse to streetcar to automobile, and from steel mills to high technology centers.’ (Inventory #: 4707s)